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Rally of the Buzzwords

From here on in, expect any smear campaign that McCain launches towards Obama to be taken at face value, but instead of those of us who are sane, practical and logical, we know to do our homework on any candidate, no matter who they are, and make an informed decision based on what that candidate can do for this country and for us. However, like many of us are all too aware of, there are some people out there who instead of doing their research on a candidate or thinking for more than 1.3 seconds about the legitimacy of what kind of bullshit “their” candidate is putting out into the media, there are way too many people who will soak up McCain’s bogus ads, go to see him speak and then throw nothing but buzzwords out, believing wholeheartedly that the bullshit their brains soaked up like a sponge from the oh so “reliable” sources like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News and John McCain and Sarah Palin themselves are completely right, not giving any of these accusations a second thought and accepting them as truth.

So for those who believe that the video in the last post was a fluke or that “not all” McCain supporters think or act like those who made asses of themselves in that video, here is another from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I am ashamed to share a state with these people.

A big thanks goes out to all of the aforementioned sane, practical and logical folks who were also at that rally trying to spread the truth about McCain/Palin such as the fact that Palin made women in Alaska pay for their own rape kits. The replies of their supporters? Well, they believe that a woman who is raped should pay for their own rape kit and not only that, but they should pay double, die, or be killed.

Nice, huh?

This election is ugly, yes, but a woman is never at fault for being raped and the people who believe that a woman is at fault are the same people who believe that she was asking for it, deserved it, should be killed because of it or they are the people who believe rape doesn’t exist, don’t teach their children about sexual assault at a young age, or maybe they are also the people who are abusers themselves.

While it is obvious that the McCain camp is “turning a page” and doing very little but launching attacks on Obama, what the fuck ever happened to humanity? As a feminist, activist, and advocate for rape and sexual assault, myself and many other people out there are speaking out about abuse and trauma and if you ever thought “Hey, this is about human decency, who doesn’t care about something that should come naturally to being a human?” These are obviously the people we are up against.

If there is one issue that is screaming at the top of its lungs that we need to reform, it’s education. There are so many people in this country who need to be educated and you just saw a video of several.

This is What McCain/Palin Supporters Look (and Act) Like

While Obama makes his supporters feel uplifted and hopeful to the point where they will encourage people to vote, start conversations through party lines, speak with their friends and family about the upcoming election, McCain supporters are a little different; they embarrass themselves–Repeatedly. They take the smears, hate, and most of all, the ignorance and arrogance that McCain puts out there and run wild with it.

This video shows that there are still some people whose minds are still so clouded with racism and with ignorance and belligerence that I am truly blown away by the amount of hate that is being fueled by this campaign. To put it bluntly, this video and the people (especially the blond woman who doesn’t believe in letting her fellow McCain/Palin supporters speak because the word ‘tact’ was never taught to her) who are spouting McCain and Palin’s regurgitated bullshit makes me sick.

This is perhaps the most crucial election that many of us will have the responsibility to vote in in our lifetime and the reason for that is because of a Republican regime who shoveled very, very deep into the Earth, put our country in the hole and proceeded to bury us alive. It is because one candidate wants to give us the same, exact Republican regime that many of us have been the victim of for the next four years. Another candidate has a shovel and is willing to dig us back up again and make sure that we don’t have to tell our children that we can’t afford to send them to school or decide what bills are important that month and what bills can wait until the next month or be a person, like myself, who are plagued by illness but don’t have health insurance because we can’t afford it and we can’t go to the hospital because we can’t bear to think of the amount of debt that would bring upon us and so we live in pain.

This video is proof that instead of reading or even watching the news (C-SPAN is great because it shows you what is actually going on and isn’t being funneled through a reporter with obvious bias) or reading the websites of the candidates to read about the issues and how each candidate feels about them, McCain supporters are merely parroting buzzwords and smear campaigns and taking them as truth without a second thought and making pure asses of themselves (especially the blond woman.)

This video also proves that people can be very, very proud of their ignorance.

Edited to add: If you wish to Digg this story, please digg this one. This video needs as much attention as possible.

Pennsylvania Voter Registration Sets Record

People registered to vote in Pennsylvania has hit an all time high and set a new record of 8.6 million Pennsylvania people registered to vote–And last minute registrants who sent in their registration as late as yesterday still have to be counted.

Democrats saw the largest increase in voter registration with an increase of 500,000 new Democratic voters. While Democrats increased in numbers, Republicans voters have dropped by 28,000.

Pennsylvania, I want to thank you for waking up; for crawling out from whatever dark hole you’ve been hiding in for the past how many or so years to get out there and make your voice heard. I also want to thank the young, recently 18 and voting in their first election and also the other people who had never registered to vote before and are voting for the first time in this election because they finally want to believe and to have hope in America. All 500,000 (and counting) new Democratic Pennsylvania voters, thank you for standing up for what you know this country needs. Those of you who have been registered to vote for years but never did because you either didn’t know much about politics or didn’t realize just how much of an impact you could have, thank you.

It is about fucking time. Now let’s win this shit, okay?

Just Name One Newspaper! Any Newspaper!

How does a question like “What newspaper did you read before accepting the vice presidential nomination from John McCain?” turn into Palin talking about how American citizens think Alaska is a foreign country?

Apparently Palin has either read every newspaper ever created or none at all. Do Alaskan cities have local newspapers? If so, why can’t she name one? Just one? She could have just named a newspaper out there that she has at least heard of that she didn’t really read, but at least knew the name of.

What is expected of someone who runs as a Republican vice presidential candidate? I mean, apparently all you need to do is not drool all over yourself while speaking, know how to read a little bit, talk in circles, make up your own questions in your head and answer them while completely ignoring the question that was initially asked. Oh Sarah, you’re lowering the bar more and more every time you open your mouth.

A candidate for any type of office in the United States should be just that–An educated, intelligent and on point candidate; not hours of entertainment. But hey, what the hell am I talking about? Look who was “voted” into the presidency for the past 8 years.

Via Blue Alto

Keating Economics

Something for you all to chew on for a bit.

It IS the Same as Palin’s Head on a Bikini-Clad Body

A picture of Sarah Palin’s head on a bikini-clad body is sexist and this picture, found over at Feministing and made by Ann, of Joe Biden’s head on a set of abs is also sexist.

First, the defense of the posting of this picture:

Indeed, this is a play on words. It’s a joke about Palin’s repeated use of the phrase “Joe Sixpack.” What sets this apart from, say, the photoshopped image of Palin’s head on a bikini-clad body, is that the point of the bikini image was, “Isn’t she HAWT?!” I’m not attempting a sweeping statement about gender here, or trying to take a cheap shot at Biden based on his looks, or trying to “level the playing field.” It’s a play on words. One that I found funny.

And when I prefaced it with a note that this explained my feelings on the debate, I meant the absurdity of her “folksy” turns of phrase. And really the absurdity of this entire election. Not that I came away from the evenings festivities thinking I wanted to see Joe Biden shirtless.

All that said, please keep debating this. (Respectfully, of course.)

Firstly, I am glad that Ann is encouraging debate about this image, but the fact that it greeted visitors going to their website to read the thoughts of the Feministing women on the vice presidential debate, because they usually have insightful and thought-provoking things to say, disappoints me.

While it is true that the response to a picture of Palin’s head on a half-naked woman’s body is usually “OMG SHE’S SO HAWT I’M TOTALLY VOTING FOR HER!!!111!!!!!” what if someone were to take this picture of Joe Biden, put it up on their site and say the same thing about him? Would it be sexist then, by Feministing’s standards? Of course it would, but because Ann defends her decision to post this picture by saying that it is a play on words, it is supposed to be accepted when it is simply not funny and indeed sexist behavior.

To point out every sexist picture and remark of Palin, as Feministing and other feminist blogs have been doing, even if we considered that some of the accounts were also defended as being a play on words, and then doing it yourself and claiming it is different is going backwards.

I find it ironic that during the vice presidential debate Biden brought up gender in saying that he knows what it is like to be a single parent yet not a lot of people know that or consider that possibility because he is a man and then finding a picture like this really makes you think about that whole gender equality thing. This picture is sexist and a woman who posts a sexist picture of a man is just as bad as a man posting a sexist picture of a woman.

Via Womanist Musings

VP Debate SNL Style

SNL did it again!